Canyada Lodge (ca. 1912)

Here’s an advertisement postcard for the Canyada Lodge, which was located in La Grande, Wash.

Canyada Lodge is Calling YouAn ideal place to spend the week ends or stop over night to and from America’s most beautiful Mountain. Our rooms are comfortable and modern in every respect. Table service family style. You will not be disappointed with our Fried Chicken Dinner with hot biscuits and country gravy. Our breakfasts and luncheons are unexcelled.

It was an amazing retreat in its day.Unfortunately, it burned in 1927. For more information on the lodge, just click here.

With the old Christensen’s store, (which also became the Sears store) being currently remodeled into a thrift store, this seemed like a good time to post this shot taken in 1942.
Alice Wingrove writes, “My parents …

The Eatonville School District has come a long way in the last 100+ years. This was Eatonville’s first schoolhouse. You can find it today at Glacier View Park.
Here is some information about the little school house …

Joe Larin captured this group cleaning up at the Mashel Prairie Indian Cemetery Shaker Church. Anyone have any names?
The Indian Henry grave monument is there today in La Grande, Wash.
This isn’t something new to Eatonville. In …